JACKSON Miss.
A University of Mississippi freshman died Saturday after climbing a tree to retrieve a football at 3:45 a.m. and falling on his head, officials said.
Bradley Jameson, 18, of Fort Worth, Texas, was taken off life support about noon Saturday, university spokesman Jeff Alford said.
Jameson suffered “massive head trauma” early Saturday when he fell about 12 feet and struck his head on a concrete patio outside a fraternity house on the Oxford campus, said Lafayette County Coroner Lonnie Weaver.
Jameson and other students were playing catch outside the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house about 3:45 a.m. when the ball got stuck in a tree, Weaver and Alford said.
He was taken by helicopter to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis where he later died, Weaver said.
Alford told The Associated Press that “police said there was no evidence that there was any alcohol involved.”
